Microchilus anchoriferus (Schltr.) Ormerod 2002
Photos by © Rebecca Repasky and Atrium Andes Biodiversity Information System
Drawing of Erythrodes marmorata
Drawing by © Schweinfurth and Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 156 Schweinfurth 1958
Common Name or Meaning The Anchor Carrying Erythrodes
Flower Size .1" [2 mm]
Found Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in wet montane forests at elevations of 800 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with pubescent roots and a recumbent stem carrying in a spiral, dark green with greenish white spots, carinate on the midline, broadly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring to fall on an erect, terminal, to 12" [30 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence
"M anchorifera differs from M minor and M ovatus in the shape of the lip. " Schweinfurth 1941 as Erythrodes marmorata
Synonyms Erythrodes anchorifera (Schltr.) Garay 1978; Erythrodes marmorata C.Schweinf. 1941; Microchilus marmoratus (C.Schweinf.) Ormerod 2004; *Physurus anchoriferus Schltr. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12: 482 Schlechter 1913 as Physurus anchoriferus
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 9: 233 Schweinfurth 1941 as Erythrodes marmorata
Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 156 Schweinfurth 1958 as Erythrodes marmorata Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 155 Schweinfurth 1958 as Erythrodes marmorata drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1]: 278 Garay 1978 as Erythrodes anchorifera; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 494 Dodson 1989 as Erythrodes anchorifera drawing not = Microchilus topoensis ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 as Erythrodes anchorifera drawing not = Microchilus topoensis
* Lindleyana 17: 214 Ormerod 2002 Macchu Picchu Orchids Christenson 2003; Oasis Suppl. 3: 12 Ormerod 2004 as M marmoratus; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 280 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 drawing fide;
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